Month: November 2014

John Jenkins, Adreian Payne solid in Mad Ants‘ lossPeachtree HoopsAdreian Payne and John Jenkins got some much needed playing time on Friday night but it was for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the NBA’s Development League. Payne and Jenkins were assigned Friday morning and were both in uniform for the Mad Ants …

“The Three-Body Problem,” the first book of a best-selling Chinese science fiction trilogy that sold more than a million of copies in China, is finally available in English translation. The book is solid classic science fiction, like the best space operas of vintage science fiction that we loved and still fondly remember as our first introduction to space and science.

Human flourishing is advanced by the convergence of technological progress and democratic social change. Technoprogressives argue that technological innovations can be profoundly empowering and emancipatory when they are democratically and transparently regulated for safety and efficacy, and then made universally and equitably available.

In this talk I will outline some of the historical precursors of contemporary technoprogressive thought, and how it suggests a strategy for progressive transhumanists to build alliances with other progressive movements. I will then sketch an political agenda for technoprogressives that will help build progressive coalitions, and counter the hegemony of billionaires, neoreactionaries, and corporations within the transhumanist movement.

http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png Released in theaters in the U.S. on Friday (Nov. 28) and in the UK on Nov. 14, The Imitation Game portrays the race by Alan Turing and his team of code-breakers to crack the German Enigma machine code at Britain’s top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park during World War II. The title of the film […]

http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png Released in theaters in the U.S. on Friday (Nov. 28) and in the UK on Nov. 14, The Imitation Game portrays the race by Alan Turing and his team of code-breakers to crack the German Enigma machine code at Britain’s top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park during World War II. The title of the film […]

http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png Alan Turing died in 1954, but the themes of his life epitomize the turn of the millennium. A pure mathematician from a tradition that prided itself on its impracticality, Turing laid the foundations for modern computer science, writes Andrew Hodges: Alan had proved that there was no “miraculous machine” that could solve all mathematical problems, but […]

http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png I met with Ray Kurzweil, in the process of packing up for Silicon Valley, to begin his new job as Google’s director of engineering — leading a research team to create AI software that can converse in fully human fashion. I asked if he took the job because Google will be the most powerful entity […]